Quotes from Dejan Lovren

At Liverpool, when warmed up, we enter the game or after 15 minutes go back to the bench.

I've achieved big things that would not be possible had I not been at such a big club as Liverpool.

The biggest problem is my back.

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.

There are teams spending a lot of money and buying top players from all over the world but it is not about money - it is about your team-mates.

Where would I go from Liverpool? It is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I am too happy here to move.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I was German-speaking, and I arrived 10 years old to Croatia, and really wasn't speaking a lot at home with my parents in Croatian, so it was really difficult to write in Croatian. It took me two years after I went back to learn everything again in Croatian.

My mum said: 'Germany is our second home' and it's true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don't know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.

I don't know one player who doesn't make a mistake, especially a defender and especially how we play at Liverpool.

Without being arrogant, I think I have proved I am one of the best defenders in the world.

I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote 'Dejan is here, Dejan is there,' and they knew nothing!

I had a great time at Southampton and will always be thankful for that.

I had the luck with Germany. If they hadn't allowed us to come in I don't know where we would've gone or where we could go. I never ask about that. My mum said: 'Germany is our second home' and it's true. Germany gave us their open hands.

People always catch you on mistakes and they don't look at the good things you do.

I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: 'Where are my ice skates?' because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: 'Dad is selling them now... we don't have money for this week.'

I think people should recognise that I'm one of the best defenders in the world and not just talk nonsense, I will say.

I am professional, won a Champions League, silver at the World Cup, I achieved big things in football and don't deserve to go anywhere on loan.

Not many players played in a World Cup and Champions League final.

Maybe there is some regret with how I left Southampton.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

It's an honour, of course, to play against the biggest players in the world.

We need to always stay hungry. When we lose the ball, get it back quickly.